You can have my roller coasters when you pry them from my cold dead hands. I go to theme parks as often as possible and have ridden coasters thousands of times I'm far more likely to be injured in a car accident on the way to the park than on the ride.

NRO? Aren't they the ones that just criticized Obama for calling Nazis "senseless" because they simple cannot allow themselves to agree with a single thing he says, ever? Yeah, not making the mistake of clicking on one of their garbage links again.

Markey can be a jerk. There used to be bunch of amusement parks in MA, but they all closed down except for 6 Flags, which used to be Riverside Park, and Canobie Lake Park in NH. He had nothing to do with it, but when the economy isn't great, people do not go to amusement parks so much.

This is what it means to say "Never Again," folks. This is what it means to try to "prevent" freak situations: only micromanagement can even come close to doing that. This is why those words should not be used lightly.

FTFA: If you're still moved to write your local representative to see if he can do anything to increase your life expectancy, then perhaps consider this first: Americans are 5,000 times more likely to be legally executed by their own government than to die on a roller coaster. Priorities, priorities.

NewWorldDan:FTFA: If you're still moved to write your local representative to see if he can do anything to increase your life expectancy, then perhaps consider this first: Americans are 5,000 times more likely to be legally executed by their own government than to die on a roller coaster. Priorities, priorities.

Did the NRO really just take a shot at capital punishment? Wow.

Obama's president, so capital punishment is being executed by the state. Next time a Rep is in charge, it will resume its status as removing turds from the gene pool.

NewWorldDan:FTFA: If you're still moved to write your local representative to see if he can do anything to increase your life expectancy, then perhaps consider this first: Americans are 5,000 times more likely to be legally executed by their own government than to die on a roller coaster. Priorities, priorities.

Did the NRO really just take a shot at capital punishment? Wow.

When they're against something, they go berserk and throw everything they can at it. Even if it's contradictory to their established positions.

That's roughly how the NRO got to the point of saying the massive genocide of Jews and others by the Nazis was 'sensible.'

Does this guy want to ban roller coasters or have the government inspect them for safety? Cause I don't really see a problem with standardized safety requirements for things that can kill you. Screaming sic semper tyrannus every time a liberal sneezes isn't making you look reasonable.

StrangeQ:NRO? Aren't they the ones that just criticized Obama for calling Nazis "senseless" because they simple cannot allow themselves to agree with a single thing he says, ever? Yeah, not making the mistake of clicking on one of their garbage links again.

Just Another OC Homeless Guy:StrangeQ: NRO? Aren't they the ones that just criticized Obama for calling Nazis "senseless" because they simple cannot allow themselves to agree with a single thing he says, ever? Yeah, not making the mistake of clicking on one of their garbage links again.

"No, we need to increase the drinking age to 18 because 500 children go to the hospital!" (average age for hospitalisation: 15; number of 16 and 17 year olds: 400k)"We need to stop private firework at the end of the year, roughly 600 people got hurt!" (26% used already illegal fireworks, a few percent fiddled with the fireworks. mount of people hit by a general ban: 13 million (assuming the people under 14 years of age don't use fireworks without parental supervision)

Except his complaint is that the new designs are pushing the limits of the materials being used to construct them.

I have exactly no education in or knowledge of structural engineering, but you're gonna look pretty silly if he's right and one day a whole bunch of new roller coasters open up and kill a whole bunch of people.

Regardless, taking NRO at its word is about as stupid as you can get. It's just as likely this is just some minor concern of his but they're focusing in on it like a laser to the exclusion of the entirety of the rest of his platform. Because they're dishonest cocks and that's the sort of thing they do.

Just Another OC Homeless Guy:StrangeQ: NRO? Aren't they the ones that just criticized Obama for calling Nazis "senseless" because they simple cannot allow themselves to agree with a single thing he says, ever? Yeah, not making the mistake of clicking on one of their garbage links again.

Diogenes:Just Another OC Homeless Guy: StrangeQ: NRO? Aren't they the ones that just criticized Obama for calling Nazis "senseless" because they simple cannot allow themselves to agree with a single thing he says, ever? Yeah, not making the mistake of clicking on one of their garbage links again.

What are you babbling on about?

"Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was - and to which the president is - implacably opposed, but it is hardly "senseless."

Those poor, misunderstood Nazis. Good thing the NRO is there to defend them and their sensible goals.

Oh, I see. "Senseless" and "sensible" are two of those words that are seriously affected by CONTEXT. (I am almost 100% certain that my next sentence will be gleefully taken out of context.) Given the goals and "morality" of the German National Socialists (Nazis), then, yes, the Holocaust was "sensible" (to them).

Just Another OC Homeless Guy:Diogenes: Just Another OC Homeless Guy: StrangeQ: NRO? Aren't they the ones that just criticized Obama for calling Nazis "senseless" because they simple cannot allow themselves to agree with a single thing he says, ever? Yeah, not making the mistake of clicking on one of their garbage links again.

What are you babbling on about?

"Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was - and to which the president is - implacably opposed, but it is hardly "senseless."

Those poor, misunderstood Nazis. Good thing the NRO is there to defend them and their sensible goals.

Oh, I see. "Senseless" and "sensible" are two of those words that are seriously affected by CONTEXT. (I am almost 100% certain that my next sentence will be gleefully taken out of context.) Given the goals and "morality" of the German National Socialists (Nazis), then, yes, the Holocaust was "sensible" (to them).

Think of it in terms of sensory selectivity, as in http://www.fark.com/goto/7586573/http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013 / 02/11/171409656/why-even-radiologists-can-miss-a-gorilla-hiding-in-pla in-sight and http://www.fark.com/comments/7586573/82472436#c82472436

Holy fark, talk about a contrast between senseless/sensible. You really can't do it, can you? You farking pudding headed conservatives really can't take even the most mundane, agreeable, not containing any possible objectionable content statement the president makes and just agree with it without having your farking brains leak out of your ears. You need farking help.

Since when is "owning bunk beds" an "activity"? I understand you aren't the brightest bulbs, but really...

Humor. It's humor. Strange concept, I know, but there you are.... (I guess it's true: libs/progs don't have a sense of humor.)

I get the attempt at humor, in that it's moderately amusing to point out that an idiot politician's pet cause is something which causes far fewer fatalities than other things which are considered every-day normal. My point is that the sentence is poorly-constructed. Owning bunkbeds, skateboards, bicycles or sleds are not only NOT activities, but are also NOT inherently dangerous. Skateboarding IS an activity, and can be dangerous. OWNING a skateboard is passive, and NOT in-and-of-itself dangerous. See the difference?

Given your knee-jerk reaction to immediately to label me as a "lib/prog", I understand that you may not have the intelligence to comprehend the subtleties of the English language, but let me assure you: Words have specific meanings.

Just Another OC Homeless Guy:Diogenes: Just Another OC Homeless Guy: StrangeQ: NRO? Aren't they the ones that just criticized Obama for calling Nazis "senseless" because they simple cannot allow themselves to agree with a single thing he says, ever? Yeah, not making the mistake of clicking on one of their garbage links again.

What are you babbling on about?

"Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was - and to which the president is - implacably opposed, but it is hardly "senseless."

Those poor, misunderstood Nazis. Good thing the NRO is there to defend them and their sensible goals.

Oh, I see. "Senseless" and "sensible" are two of those words that are seriously affected by CONTEXT. (I am almost 100% certain that my next sentence will be gleefully taken out of context.) Given the goals and "morality" of the German National Socialists (Nazis), then, yes, the Holocaust was "sensible" (to them).

Think of it in terms of sensory selectivity, as in http://www.fark.com/goto/7586573/http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013 / 02/11/171409656/why-even-radiologists-can-miss-a-gorilla-hiding-in-pla in-sight and http://www.fark.com/comments/7586573/82472436#c82472436

A sensible person would have concluded that the author of that article could have chosen her words more carefully.

Except his complaint is that the new designs are pushing the limits of the materials being used to construct them.

I have exactly no education in or knowledge of structural engineering, but you're gonna look pretty silly if he's right and one day a whole bunch of new roller coasters open up and kill a whole bunch of people.

So we should have government oversight of a problem that does not exist?

Just Another OC Homeless Guy:Oh, I see. "Senseless" and "sensible" are two of those words that are seriously affected by CONTEXT. (I am almost 100% certain that my next sentence will be gleefully taken out of context.) Given the goals and "morality" of the German National Socialists (Nazis), then, yes, the Holocaust was "sensible" (to them).

So you would agree that it is totally worth taking the time to correct someone for saying murdering millions of people was senseless?

Good Thing /n.,adj./Often capitalized; always pronounced as if capitalized. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The Trailblazer's 19.2Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews."

thurstonxhowell:Just Another OC Homeless Guy: Oh, I see. "Senseless" and "sensible" are two of those words that are seriously affected by CONTEXT. (I am almost 100% certain that my next sentence will be gleefully taken out of context.) Given the goals and "morality" of the German National Socialists (Nazis), then, yes, the Holocaust was "sensible" (to them).

So you would agree that it is totally worth taking the time to correct someone for saying murdering millions of people was senseless?

Not at all. He'll contort himself to defend a conservative in any event.

Oliver Twisted:So we should have government oversight of a problem that does not exist?

I don't know what "we" should do, but I'd suggest you should try increasing your IQ until you stop just believing whatever halfwit rags with a track of record of lying put into print on the internet for the purpose of scoring political points for the ideology they hold a bias toward.

Maybe the guy is a Nader-esque nut with no capacity for understanding scale and context. Maybe the NRO is just hyping up inconsequential bullshiat so they can slaver about LIBS! LIBS! LIBS!

Since I don't know anything about this politician, I can't really make any judgement on him. Since I've seen NRO fly off the handle like a bunch of sugared-up children pouring from an open minivan into a mall parking lot more times than I can count, however, I feel pretty confident in writing their position on it off until I see some evidence from a credible source.

Either way, though, I'm not going to care a whole lot. I didn't elect him, I can't vote him out, I don't really care about amusement parks to begin with and he's just one guy among hundreds in his institution anyway.

I'm usually not one to trust a self regulating market but the amusement park industry spends a lot of money and effort on safety and they take it very seriously. This isn't is really to their benefit as a single injury in a park can become a public relations nightmare and given the general stupidity of people...

One of the many things I learned when serving on a Federal Grand Jury is that the Feds will consider something to be "interstate commerce" and thus subject to Federal law is that if any part of a thing is shipped in from out of state, it's covered by the Commerce Clause. This is most often seen in gun regulation, where if you use a gun to commit a felony the Feds can get involved if any single part of the gun or ammo used came from a different state, it falls under the purview of the US Government.

But since it's unlikely that any roller coaster in the US doesn't contain something from another state, or another country, I can see them claiming them under the Commerce Clause.

Makes sense? No. But that's the interpretation, and thus far courts have been unwilling to hold up any challenges to the interpretation.

No, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know this for sure, but I'd bet the farm that if they did decide to go that route, that's the justification they'd use.